31 Films & TV Shows Set In Mexico During The 2010s
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The Spokeswoman
🇲🇽 Mexico The 2010sThe Spokeswoman narrates the trip of María de Jesús Patricio, the first indigenous woman to run for president in Mexico, revealing the nature and complexity of racism and gender discrimination in a changing society.
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I Carry You with Me
Puebla New York The 1990s The 2000s The 2010s The 2020sAn epic love story spanning decades is sparked by a chance encounter between two men in provincial Mexico. Based on a true story, ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.
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Identifying Features
🇲🇽 Mexico The 2010sMagdalena, a mother in search of her missing son, meets Miguel, recently deported from the US and looking for his mother. Together, they make their way through the desolate and unforgiving militia-ridden landscapes south of the border.
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Belzebuth
🇲🇽 Mexico The 2010sDon't stop praying — While leading a police investigation of a massacre in a public school at the border of Mexico and U.S.A, special Agent Emanuel Ritter links this strange case to the coming and rising of the ancient demon Belzebuth. But in order to stop the trail of upcoming infanticides, Ritter shall have to confront himself before dealing with the forces of good and evil.
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters
🇲🇽 Mexico Massachusetts Colorado District of Columbia California Arizona 🇩🇪 Germany 🇨🇳 China 🇦🇶 Antarctica Atlantic Ocean 🇧🇲 Bermuda The 2010sLong live the king. — Follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species, thought to be mere myths, rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity's very existence hanging in the balance.
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Miss Bala
Baja California California The 2010sWho would you become to save your family? — Gloria finds a power she never knew she had when she is drawn into a dangerous world of cross-border crime. Surviving will require all of her cunning, inventiveness, and strength.
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The Laundromat
🇲🇽 Mexico Nevada California Florida New York 🇵🇦 Panama Chongqing Municipality The 2010sPanama Papers — When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world's wealthiest citizens amass larger fortunes.
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Rambo: Last Blood
Arizona 🇲🇽 Mexico The 2010sEveryone has one more fight in them — After fighting his demons for decades, John Rambo now lives in peace on his family ranch in Arizona, but his rest is interrupted when Gabriela, the granddaughter of his housekeeper María, disappears after crossing the border into Mexico to meet her biological father. Rambo, who has become a true father figure for Gabriela over the years, undertakes a desperate and dangerous journey to find her.
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Sea of Shadows
🇲🇽 Mexico The 2010sThe cartels, the black market and the fight to save a species. — The vaquita, the world’s smallest whale, is nearing extinction as its habitat is destroyed by Mexican cartels and the Chinese Mafia, who harvest the totoaba fish, the “cocaine of the sea.” Environmental activists, the Mexican navy, and undercover investigators are fighting back against this illegal multimillion-dollar business.
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Midnight Family
Ciudad de México The 2010sIn Mexico City, the government operates fewer than 45 emergency ambulances for a population of 9 million. This has spawned an underground industry of for-profit ambulances often run by people with little or no training or certification. An exception in this ethically fraught, cutthroat industry, the Ochoa family struggles to keep their financial needs from jeopardizing the people in their care. When a crackdown by corrupt police pushes the family into greater hardship, they face increasing moral dilemmas even as they continue providing essential emergency medical services.
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Apapacho: A Caress for the Soul
🇲🇽 Mexico The 2010sWhile away in Mexico, Karine and Estelle witness the preparation and rejoicing of the “Day of the Dead”. Inspired by the beauty of the ritual and the fine spiritual humor of their hosts, they will soon learn to see their sister’s recent tragic death in a more light-hearted manner.
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Gringo
Illinois Ciudad de México The 2010sAn American corporation, the Mexican cartel, chances are this won't end well. — An American businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company that's about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in Mexico.
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The Predator
🇲🇽 Mexico Tennessee New Mexico California Georgia The 2010sThe hunt has evolved. — When a young child accidentally triggers extraterrestrial hunters to return to Earth, a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and scientists join forces to prevent the end of the human race.
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Time Share
🇲🇽 Mexico The 2010sWhile staying at a tropical resort, a man becomes convinced the American timeshare company running it has an evil plan to take away his loved ones.
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Horse Wrangler
🇲🇽 Mexico The 2010sNando, a young horse wrangler in a rural Mexican village, has taken his own life following a disagreement with his father. Caballerango shows the boy’s family members and townspeople as they reckon with the new realities borne out of this inexplicable tragedy. Each account of Nando’s story reveals a different aspect of this rural town, which is deeply affected by modernization. The confrontation between the centuries-old ways of life and the modern-day world seems to be creating serious identity crises among the younger generation. The story is told in a patient, observational style with methodical shots of the landscape, ranches, and of the two white horses, whom Nando and his father tended to. Those horses, the last to see Nando alive, connect us to an ethereal sensation of almost otherworldly mystical beings.
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I Dream in Another Language
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave The 2010s The 1960sAn indigenous language is in peril, as its last two speakers had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over 50 years. Martín, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge of bringing the old friends back together and convincing them to speak once again so he can obtain a recorded registration of the language and study it.
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47 Meters Down
🇲🇽 Mexico The 2010sNo way out. No way up. No chance in hell. — Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.
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Assassin's Creed
🇲🇽 Mexico Texas England 🇪🇸 Spain The 1980s The 2010s The 14th CenturyYour destiny is in your blood. — Through unlocked genetic memories that allow him to relive the adventures of his ancestor in 15th century Spain, Callum Lynch discovers he's a descendant of the secret 'Assassins' society. After gaining incredible knowledge and skills, he is now poised to take on the oppressive Knights Templar in the present day.
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
🇲🇽 Mexico New Jersey Kansas Delaware District of Columbia Africa - General The 1980s The 2010sJustice or revenge — Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it’s ever known before.
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The Shallows
🇲🇽 Mexico Texas The 2010sWhat was once in the deep is now in the shallows. — When Nancy is surfing on a secluded beach, she finds herself on the feeding ground of a great white shark. Though she is stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of Nancy's ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude.
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Spectre
Ciudad de México England 🇻🇦 Holy See 🇦🇹 Austria 🇮🇹 Italy Tokyo Prefecture 🇪🇭 Western Sahara 🇲🇦 Morocco Africa - General The 2010sA Plan No One Escapes — A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
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Creed
Baja California Pennsylvania California England The 1990s The 2010sYour legacy is more than a name — The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.
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James White
🇲🇽 Mexico New York The 2010sJames White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more responsibility. With the pressure on him mounting, James must find new reserves of strength or risk imploding completely.
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Cartel Land
Michoacán de Ocampo Arizona The 2010sIn the Mexican state of Michoacán, Dr. Jose Mireles, a small-town physician known as "El Doctor," shepherds a citizen uprising against the Knights Templar, the violent drug cartel that has wreaked havoc on the region for years. Meanwhile, in Arizona's Altar Valley—a narrow, 52-mile-long desert corridor known as Cocaine Alley—Tim "Nailer" Foley, an American veteran, heads a small paramilitary group called Arizona Border Recon, whose goal is to halt Mexico’s drug wars from seeping across our border.
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The Book of Life
🇲🇽 Mexico The 2010sThe journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart. Before choosing which path to follow, he embarks on an incredible adventure that spans three fantastical worlds where he must face his greatest fears.
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